The think tank said the Kremlin considered Transnistria as a tool to execute hybrid war operations against Moldova and Ukraine, as well as to destabilize NATO.

Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine has not been going according to plan. Russia's aggression could even inadvertently bring an end to the Transnistria conflict in neighboring Moldova.

Transnistria has managed to avoid embroiling itself in the Ukraine war, despite the billions of dollars in subsidies it receives from Moscow, the 1,500 Russian peacekeeping troops on its soil and ...

But the war raging in Ukraine and its outcome will likely upend the status quo Transnistria’s some 300,000 residents have grown accustomed to, potentially providing an opportunity to resolve a ...

The war next door has kick-started the process. Transnistria has survived as a statelet thanks to smuggling and cheap Russian gas. In 2022 Ukraine sealed its border with Transnistria, ending its ...

The war also spurred Moldova to try to resolve its decades-long conflict with Transnistria. Partly in response to the war, the EU granted Moldova candidate status in June 2022, and in December ...

A decades-long Russian-Ukrainian transit gas deal to Europe ended on Jan. 1. For now, the most acute effects are being felt in a region called Transnistria, on the eastern edge of Moldova.

In the post World War Two carve-up of the region, Moscow created Moldova's forerunner, the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, from two disparate elements: the mainly Russian-speaking Dniester ...

Although Transnistria’s independence isn’t recognized by any U.N. member countries, including Russia, the Kremlin-friendly territory has become a source of tension during the war, especially ...

Since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine in 2022, Moldova has been importing gas from the European market instead of from Russia. Transnistria, however, was still supplied with Russian gas.

Transnistria, a breakaway Moldovan province loyal to Russia, ... Moscow's ability to do so as its struggles with the war in Ukraine has been severely constrained. Nevertheless, ...